Link. Observational. File it as “interesting”
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Heineken ‘Lighter Is Better’ Ad.
Link. WTF.
A damning summary of Apple’s education fantasies.
Link. Why bother?
“Koch Industries … lobbied hard for sweeping criminal justice changes, including more lenient sentencing”
Link. Sessions being evil, Kushner & Koch doing good. When it comes to prisons GOP is diverse.
“Trump wanted to fire Tillerson via tweet while he was traveling in Africa to maximize the humiliation”
Link. Why would a non-evil person join this team?
Mapping 1940s Manchester using ‘revision points’.
Link. “A quintessential revision point might be a scratch on a wall, or the corner of a doorway, or an old nail sticking out of a post—something so ordinary, unchanging and small, most people wouldn’t even notice it.”
Why we need to make it illegal to pay ransomware: The Atlanta attack.
Link. High profit, no risk. Thanks to bitcoin.
“demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment”
Link. If necessary, absolutely.
“we describe the anatomy and histology of a previously unrecognized, though widespread, macroscopic, fluid-filled space within and between tissues, a novel expansion and specification of the concept of the human interstitium”
Link. Implications for understanding interstitial cystitis?
Gender and politics in America.
Link. “The number of female voters has exceeded the number of male voters in every presidential election since 1964.”
Quantum effect molecular imaging: “the resulting images are absolutely terrifying for someone like me who came up thinking of these as mathematical abstractions.”
Link.
NYT reviews anti-student vitriol of rabid right.
Link. No surprises. This is why we must fight.
Tsai’s Apple ed roundup.
Link. All you need to read.
Node-RED: another drag-and-drop code generator.
Link. Fun to watch. Doubt is practical.
“The more someone believed the United States is — and should be — a Christian nation, the more likely they were to vote for Trump”
Link. Unbothered by Stormy. Fun to see them revealed.
iCloud Drive sync hangups.
Link. Sob.
Sabine has a modified gravity theory.
Link. Fun to read how this evolved. She is excited.
Customer support: how best to use it.
Link. Good advice.
Syria: “Much of war is crime, a series of depredations and abuses … that participants cloak with sanctimony, euphemism and lies.”
Link. Was there ever a better path.
“overwhelmingly willing to shop at a store that required them to provide information about their income and date of birth if it would save them a single euro.”
Link. Why Facebook won’t die. Pigouvian taxation is answer.
ADHD age 4: “a smaller brain, over all, and reductions in the size of several specific regions, including the frontal lobes”
Link. A connectopathy. I’d like to see autism comparison group at same age.
Foxconn buys Belkin.
Link. I like Belkin’s stuff.
New TidBITS site built on WordPress and Discourse.
Link. A quality neighborhood
“if you think that G.O.P. leaders would balk at gross electoral manipulation, you haven’t been paying attention”
Link. They will do this next election
Airlines ask GOP for permission to cheat customers
Link. Come the revolution …
Low fat vs low carb diet: both work.
Link. A consensus is emerging, not that different from 20y ago.
Scalzi: About That March.
Link. I too was surprised by response. NRA is good at their racket though. Voting Dem is everything.
10 Famous Bookstores.
Link. Three in the United States.
Smartphones for All: Explorer (phone) locations – benefits and privacy.
Link. Book chapter, prelude to the technical portion.
Facebook CA: one manifestation of ad-funded net.
Link. We have long known how to manage emergent tragedy-of-the-commons externalities. Regulation and taxation. This is not hard.
Another H Sapiens cousin in DNA of a West African people
Link. Like Denisovan and Neandertal. Once we were many
Fb’s mistake: “selling users’ private information to companies who want to sell you things that you be unhappy”
Link. But heroin makes people happy. For a time …
“Wealthfront … invest 20% of its investors’ funds into an internal “risk parity” fund … invested mostly in complex derivatives”
Link. The problem with startups. BTW, I think Fidelity’s website is even worse than Vanguard’s.
I remember the Million Mom March of May 2000.
Link. Marches are useful, voting is essential. The NRA and GOP are far from defeated. Prepare to fight hard and long.
“good thing we have regional, expendable allies, because after the first 90 minutes of this war, somewhere around 2 million South Koreans are going to be a thin layer of greasy soot in the stratosphere,”
Link. Bolton, per The Onion.
Apple to Introduce Account Merging for Multiple Apple IDs.
Link. Just teasing. This was from 2011.
“This item was not added to your iCloud Music Library because an error occurred”
Link. Low quality is expensive.
Fibromyalgia: “… as long as she makes it into the gym, eats well and gets ample sleep, “I’m completely symptom-free”
Link. More exercise than most people can imagine doing.
“Empire State Trail, which will allow bikers and walkers to travel on a network of paths running from New York City to Canada”
Link. Some things are getting better.
Gun control: the spirit is strong, the voting is weak.
Link. Marches are nice, voting is what matters.
Review of Apple iPad in education and limitations
Link. Shorter version: Apple is a lousy partner
Another Trump mistress speaks.
Link. Trump evidently has charm. Though maybe it’s the billions.
“percentage of youths who are obese and severely obese rose slightly from the 2007-2008 time frame, but not enough to be statistically significant.”
Link. Adults getting fatter though
NYT reports Uber autonomous cars sucked
Link. Send a CEO to prison.
Scott Walker Aims To Change Law To Avoid Holding Elections GOP Might Lose
Link. Wisconsin voters chose this bozo. White ones anyway.
Frequently Asked Questions
Link. Good business advice.
“Trump was given a list of all the planes, submarines and other military equipment the bill would fund,”
Link. He’s pathetic. Shame so dangerous.
Apple Store issues
Link. Crappy software quality is expensive.
APFS bug. Secret fix “… in macOS 10.13.2, but I wonder how many passwords are still stored in logs somewhere”
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Jobs 2010 on privacy.
Link. I wasn’t a Jobs fan, but, respect.